The explanation of NABU in Trade Commerce demonstrates the agency's intransigence and incompetence

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16 November 2017

The explanation of NABU in Trade Commerce demonstrates the agency's intransigence and incompetence

On November 15, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine issued a clarification in the case of raising the price for fuel purchases for the Ministry of Defense, which is based on false facts and contains a large number of errors and inaccuracies, and, therefore, is incompetent and biased.

NABU claims that the increase in fuel prices supplied by the Trade Commodity Company to the Ministry of Defense was "made in the absence of documented market price fluctuations ". This information is in contrary to fact!

Trade Commodity provided information from government agencies that are legally entitled to provide the above-mentioned documents. Namely, the certificates of State Enterprise "Derzhzovnishinform" and the Dnepropetrovsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry. NABU has access to these references, but for some reason does not mention their existence in their explanation.

At the same time, accusing the Company, NABU, in an official explanation, without any references or confirmations, indicates absolutely incorrect market prices. By the way, at the time of writing this material, slides containing such false information have already been removed from the explanation, but they have been saved as screenshots.

In particular, NABU openly manipulates the price of the Kremenchug oil refinery plant and invented the market price for diesel "arctic" fuel, which can not exist in the absence of demand in the summer. It is possible to obtain it only on special orders, for such bodies as, for example, the Ministry of Defense or the State Reserve. We wonder who painted these slides with "market" prices for NABU?...

Also, another statement of NABU that the Law of Ukraine "On Public Procurement” prohibits raising the price by more than 10% is contrary to the fact The law does not set any restrictions on price increases as a result of several changes.

It should be noted that in the official explanation the Bureau calls on the public to "make their own unbiased conclusions", using false information and unreliable facts, which is absolutely inadmissible for the investigative body. In this way, NABU deliberately manipulates public opinion.

We also emphasize that NABU constantly changes its clarifications of the state procurement case at the Ministry of Defense, removing from its official website certain materials that were published previously. Due to this confusion, the official position of NABU on this case remains unclear.